Communications Biology (Nov 2021)

Evolution of cooperation in costly institutions exhibits Red Queen and Black Queen dynamics in heterogeneous public goods

  • Mohammad Salahshour

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02865-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Salahshour examines a theoretical model in which individuals have a choice between a costly institute and a free institute to perform a collective action task. This study shows how heterogeneity facilitates cooperation, and can lead to the coexistence of cooperators and defectors in a well-mixed and spatially-structured model.